Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8c23fc2eb5d394b…

MALICIOUS

RTF

9.2 KB First seen: 2018-04-12
MD5: fb7452edcd528b6d8855bc7571770cff SHA-1: d26ea1215ee06a24742885d53ead2f7613541791 SHA-256: b8c23fc2eb5d394b027061543ff698ac34a71b8bba65ea52b00fd66cf1e8d54c
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and triggers heuristics related to Equation Editor exploits, specifically CVE-2017-11882. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability for client-side code execution. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the critical heuristics strongly suggest the exploit's intent.

Heuristics 5

  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000003b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3B 4667 bytes
SHA-256: dea945c451b06888830ed421abc86fa98953c34b44a95f63d0d8f2640c64bf33